Rugby

ELLINGHAM & Ringwood destroyed Alresford by a massive 81-22 margin to pick up their second win of Counties Two Hampshire campaign.

NEW Milton continued their unbeaten league start to stay top of the table after outscoring Millbrook by seven tries to three.

NEW Milton survived a late Ellingham & Ringwood onslaught to move to the top of the table after an impressive four-game winning start to the campaign.

ELLINGHAM & Ringwood started their league campaign with a victory over newly promoted Fawley at the Raymond Brawn Memorial Ground.

NEW Milton backed up their season-opening win with a hard-fought victory over Sandown & Shanklin, their first away win against them in eight years.

SOARING costs have forced a popular rugby club to nearly halve the size of a planned new clubhouse.

ELLINGHAM & Ringwood Rugby Club’s U13s capped their move from mini rugby to junior rugby with victory over Andover RFC in the Hampshire Bowl.

A GOLD bench has been unveiled in Totton to honour Paralympian Aaron Phipps’ achievement in Tokyo last year.

ELLINGHAM and Ringwood Women have won the Lytchett Minster Sevens title for the sixth consecutive year after beating all four other teams.

FORMER Ellingham & Ringwood scrum-half Alicia Maude has been called up to the England Women Sevens squad for the world series tournament in Canada.

ELLINGHAM & Ringwood overcame a 12-point half-time deficit to take a thrilling New Forest derby victory over local rivals New Milton.

NEW Milton ruthlessly dispatched bottom-of-the-league Locksheath Pumas in a massive 71-0 scoreline at Norman’s Way.

NEW Milton continued their rich vein of form with their third win on the bounce, this time against a Millbrook side just below them in the league.

NEW Milton ran out comfortable 35-12 winners against Chichester seconds, gaining a measure of revenge for a last-minute defeat earlier in the season.

ELLINGHAM & Ringwood secured back-to-back victories for the second time this season with a resounding 34-8 away win over Locksheath Pumas.

NEW Milton defeated local rivals Ellingham & Ringwood in a thrilling match which saw the lead change multiple times before a late match-winning try.

ELLINGHAM & Ringwood’s women continued their unbeaten start with a strong away performance and a 34-5 win at Amesbury in Wiltshire.

BURGATE’S Poppy Cleall, who learned to play rugby at Ellingham & Ringwood, has been nominated for the World Rugby Player of the Year award.

TOTTON’S Aaron Phipps and his fellow wheelchair rugby gold medal-winning teammates have jointly won the Paralympian of the Year award.

NEW Milton lost a tight contest to a well-coached Chichester side that benefitted greatly from the visitors’ indiscipline at the breakdown.